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Tagged with story-identification soft-sci-fi
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Old book about a man who finds an abandoned house with a portal to another world
This is an old book I think written around 1930s-ish timeframe (possibly older) and could be by a female author.
A man is traveling around Europe and finds what appears to be an abandoned house. (I ...
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1990s-early 2000s sci-fi TV show about aliens who came to earth and had beautiful white ships
I vaguely remember it from my childhood and can’t find it. It would be late 1990s-early 2000s TV show about aliens show came to earth and had beautiful white ships and they were supposedly helping us ...
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Looking for pulp sci-fi paperback written pre-1976, two men, separated early in the book, find an underground civilization of dim-witted, pale beings
In this dumb pulp novel, two men are exploring a cave and fall through to a vast domed world where a race of small, pale beings regularly crash their go-cart-like vehicles into each other. The ...
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Old movie about a man with healing powers who arrives in a town while looking for his mother
I'm looking for a movie from the 80's or 90's.
It's about a man with powers who is looking for his mother. He arrives in a town; there, he fixes a man's TV antenna and detects a kid's aneurysm. When ...
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60's or 70's book about a planet of only women
Trying to find a 60's or 70's book about a planet of only women. Many searches have been done to no avail.
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Sci-fi book (all-knowing cow, almost grey goo beginning, different universe/dimension)
Someone created self-replicating nanobots that replicated enough only to replace every other few nano particles. The consequence is that privacy is impossible as every nanobot has a camera and you can ...
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Novel where the stardrive is powered by magic
In the mid 00's I read a novel where starships FTL drives were powered by magic. The better the magician on board, the lower they could go, the faster the FTL drive.
The crew reminded me of a typical ...
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Pre-2013 collection of short stories involving teleportation and time travel, a noir detective, an artist, and a plague doctor
Around 2011 or 2013, I read a library book of a collection of short sci-fi stories dealing with teleportation and time travel. I don't know how old the book was. There were maybe 10 or so short ...
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Book about a time traveling city, metallic eggs, and psychic wars [duplicate]
I am trying to remember the name of a science fiction book I borrowed from a library in BC, sometime between the years 2005–2008. The story is a young adult book which involves time travel:
The book ...
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Prince who was either a robot or a human who needed another heart
The book as about a girl who worked in a bar or something similar, I'm not sure. There was also a prince who was either a robot or a human who needed another heart. His heart needs constant ...
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Looking for sci-fi short story about a spacecraft flight simulator consultant
I hesitate to provide much detail because with the last question I asked, I got many of the details pretty wrong, but still got the correct answer here, amazingly, so here goes…
I’ve been trying to ...
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I'm looking for a book titled "Signal to Space" which was translated from a French novel titled "Le Signal" originally published in the 1970's
I read this book in the mid 1980's. It revolves around a young boy and his pet. In the story, humans live in a space station orbiting Earth after a cataclysmic event has rendered the planet ...
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Short story about a space shuttle seeing a city of lights on the Moon
Twenty years ago or thereabouts, I listened to an audio book about a sci-fi short story. I remember bits and pieces, and pardon the vagueness of it due it being 20+ years ago, but the general synopsis ...
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Looking for a movie about alien parasites who rely on seduction to reproduce
I remember seeing a movie some time in most likely the 00's (though I have no idea whether it was new or old at the time) about some sort of alien infestation. The key conceit was that these aliens ...
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Late 2000’s / early 2010’s sci-fi movie involving an experiment where water is turned into wine
I'm not too sure the exact details sadly. My biggest memory is that, at the end of the movie, the lead female researcher has her experiment turn water into wine in front of a priest and the movie ends....
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